American Memory: Technical summary
The Last Days of a President:
Films of McKinley and the Buffalo World's Fair, 1901
President William McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition,
1901
URL
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/mckhome.html
Collection Overview
- Description
-
Actuality motion pictures from the Paper Print Collection of the Library
of Congress. They include footage of President William McKinley at his
second inauguration; of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New
York; of President McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition; and of
President McKinley's funeral. The films were produced by the Edison
Manufacturing Company from March to November 1901. The company, founded
by inventor Thomas Alva Edison, operated from 1893 to 1917.
- Source collection
-
Paper Prints Motion Picture Collection
, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
LCCN for related videodisc:
95-513029
[Link to catalog record (z39.50 query)
will
not work when main cataloging system is not
available.]
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- Technical features
-
Silent motion picture footage originally shot at about 15 frames per second.
- Original material formats
-
- Number of original items
- 28
- Status of collection
- Available online.
- Public access
- The Library is not aware of any restrictions that inhibit public
access to this collection. See notes on rights and
restrictions provided by the Library to users of this collection.
Aids to intellectual access
- Type & granularity
- MARC bibliographic records. Each bib. record describes a single item.
Sample
bibliographic display in American Memory.
- Linking to digital reproductions
- Bibliographic record contains identifier used in filenames for all
versions and segments of movie. MPEG and QuickTime files for motion
pictures longer than four minutes are divided into segments.
Digital reproductions
Total file-space for digital reproductions: 1.8
Gbytes
| Motion Pictures |
Service file |
Service file |
Service file |
Inline
thumbnail
(still image) |
| Marker |
Filename extension ".mpg" |
Filename extension ".mov" |
Filename extension ".avi" |
Filename ends "t" |
| Formats |
MPEG-1 |
QuickTime |
AVI |
GIF |
| Data rate |
ca. 1.2 Mbits/sec |
ca. 640 Kbits/sec |
ca. 1 Mbits/sec |
8 bit |
| Image size |
320x240 pixels |
160x120 pixels |
320x240 pixels |
300x100 pixels |
| Frame rate |
30 fps |
10-15 fps |
15 fps |
n/a |
| Color depth |
n/a |
24 bits |
n/a |
8 bits |
| Approx. file size range |
7-30 Mbytes |
2-14 Mbytes |
5-70 Mbytes |
90 Kbytes |
| Quantity |
35 |
35 |
28 |
28 |
| Sample |
Sample MPEG |
Sample
QuickTime |
Sample AVI |
Sample thumbnail |
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